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SAMPLE FIRST-TIME LETTER TO YOUR MP February 2012
MP name + title if any (Rt Hon etc.)
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
(or constituency office address)
Date 2012
Dear (MP)
Justice for Hollie Greig, Anne Greig & Robert Green
You may already be aware of Hollie Greig as many people have been writing to their MPs about her over the last 2-3 years, but just in case you haven’t heard, here briefly is the story:
Hollie is a 32 year-old Down’s Syndrome woman who claims she was raped throughout her childhood by a paedophile ring in Aberdeen. Members included her own father and brother and 20 other outwardly respectable people, such as a local Sheriff, a senior police officer and the headmaster of the Special School she attended in the 1990s.
While the abuse was going on Hollie was terrorised into silence but at age 20, with the help of her mother Anne Greig she at last had the courage to report her former abusers to Grampian police, starting with her father and brother. The police immediately carried out an internal examination which confirmed the abuse. However they then took no further action, except to attempt to silence Anne by sectioning her to the local mental hospital. Fortunately Anne managed to extricate herself and found out that there had been no warrant for the sectioning.
Despite the intimidation, Hollie and her mother continued to try to press the authorities to investigate the crimes but were unsuccessful and the harassment grew worse. Thinking they would be safer in England to they took up residence in Shrewsbury . However in June 2010 their new home was raided and trashed by Shropshire police, rendering it uninhabitable. The Council then initiated care proceedings with a view to removing Hollie from her mother, against which they are now appealing.
In late 2008 Robert Green, a Cheshire man, began helping Anne and Hollie with their campaign for justice. Styling himself their ‘lay legal representative’ he set about contacting the various authorities including Shropshire police to try to get the crimes investigated. However still no action was taken, despite Hollie by this time having been awarded a total of £13,500 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
For this reason, in January 2010, Robert felt he had no option but to bring matters to a head by publicly naming the members of the paedophile ring. Of course several went to the police to complain, while the named Sheriff took out an injunction against him. Hence on Friday 12th February 2010, as he was on his way to central Aberdeen to hand out leaflets as a prospective General Election candidate, Robert was arrested and detained for 4 days. He was denied access to legal representation and his home in Warrington was simultaneously raided and his computer and personal documentation removed. He was released on bail pending trial on charges of breach of the peace.
2 years later (the charges were renewed in January 2011) and after more than 15 journeys back and forth to Scotland to attend ‘interim diets’, in January 2012 the case at last came to trial in a 6-day summary hearing at Stonehaven Sheriff Court under Sheriff Principal Bowen. The Sheriff convicted Robert on 1 charge of breach of the peace and 1 charge of breach of bail conditions and on 17th February sentenced him to 1 year in prison.
It is widely thought that Robert did not get a fair trial/this was a mistrial:
- In view of the underlying criminal and human rights dimensions to the case it should have been heard in a ‘solemn’ rather than a ‘summary’ trial, where the evidence would have been more fully examined in front of a jury;
- Robert’s Defence team did not have enough time to prepare the defence, the latest team having only been appointed within a week of the hearing;
- Documentary evidence crucial to the preparation of the Defence, removed from Robert’s house by Grampian police on 13 Feb 2010 had not been returned;
- The original arrest on 12 February 2010 was unlawfully conducted;
- Key witnesses perjured themselves;
- The Sheriff did not allow the cited key witness for the Defence, former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini to be called and failed to reveal his personal connections to the lady;
- The action against Robert leading to the Trial was in breach of Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 2000, where a government or authority may limit an individual’s right to Free Expression, which carries with it “duties and responsibilities”, where such limitation “pursues a legitimate aim, such the prevention of disorder and crime [and] the protection of health and morals…”. It was confirmed at the Trial by all the witnesses who included several of the alleged abusers and victims that Grampian police had not questioned any single one of them regarding Hollie’s allegations, either in 2000 when she filed the original reports nor in September 2009 when she gave a 3 ½ hour interview to Shropshire police (under Grampian conditions) in which she cogently repeated the information she had given in 2000 and was declared a truthful witness.
Furthermore, it came out in the trial that Grampian police had failed to investigate the death in suspicious circumstances of the other key witness to the abuse, Hollie’s uncle Roy Greig who had discovered her father raping her in 1997 and shortly after had perished in a car-fire.
Therefore, since Grampian police had failed in their duty to prevent disorder and crime or to protect health and morals, they did not have legitimate grounds for silencing Robert and the whole case should have been struck out.
With two local authorities in England, Cheshire and Shropshire involved as well those in Scotland the case has long since transcended constituency boundaries and at this stage it is felt that only a public inquiry can adequately address the deep concerns over the way this case has been handled over 12 years, in particular the role of the previous Lord Advocate, Dame Elish Angiolini who lied about her involvement as Procurator Fiscal for Aberdeen during the years 2000-5 and is believed to have used public funds to gag the press.
Besides, the fact remains that in all this time, nothing has been done to protect the vulnerable children who could still be at risk in Scotland and indeed in Portugal, since Hollie’s father Denis Mackie and her brother Greg against whom evidence is strongest are still at large in that country. It is also totally unacceptable that a disabled woman who has been the victim of the most terrible crimes should be further persecuted by public officials and that the honourable man who did most to get these crimes properly investigated has been locked up.
Please would you therefore join with others in the House in demanding a public inquiry into this whole matter. As your constituent I wish to be reassured that you take the protection of children and the disabled and the proper investigation of crime as seriously as do I and I look forward to hearing from you as to what action you will be taking.
Anne and Hollie’s MP is Owen Paterson (Shropshire North) and Robert’s is David Mowat (Warrington South) and both are fully aware of the case, as is the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, but I believe it would be appropriate to register my and hopefully also your concerns with them in the first instance.
For further information please go to www.holliedemandsjustice.org
Yours sincerely
(signature, then your name and address, so the MP can verify you are his or her real constituent)
SAMPLE FOLLOW-UP LETTER TO YOUR MP February 2012
MP name + title if any (Rt Hon etc.)
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
(or constituency office address)
Date
Dear (MP)
Justice for Hollie Greig, Anne Greig & Robert Green
As you may remember, I wrote to you about Hollie Greig last year/in 2010 and/but you…(refer to the action or inaction taken at the time)
This is to bring you up to date with latest developments in the case and once again ask you to take action.
To refresh your memory, Hollie is a 32 year-old Down’s Syndrome woman who claims she was raped throughout her childhood by a paedophile ring in Aberdeen. Members included her own father and brother and some 16 other outwardly respectable people, such as a local Sheriff, a senior police officer and the headmaster of the Special School she attended in the 1990s.
While the abuse was going on Hollie was terrorised into silence but at age 20, with the help of her mother Anne Greig she at last had the courage to report her former abusers to Grampian police, starting with her father and brother. The police immediately carried out an internal examination which confirmed the abuse. However they then took no further action, except to attempt to silence Anne by sectioning her to the local mental hospital. Fortunately Anne managed to extricate herself and found out that there had been no warrant for the sectioning.
Despite the intimidation, Hollie and her mother continued to try to press the authorities to investigate the crimes but were unsuccessful and the harassment grew worse. Thinking they would be safer in England to they took up residence in Shrewsbury. However in June 2010 their new home was raided and trashed by Shropshire police, rendering it uninhabitable. The Council then initiated care proceedings with a view to removing Hollie from her mother, against which they are now appealing.
In late 2008 Robert Green, a Cheshire man, began helping Anne and Hollie with their campaign for justice. Styling himself their ‘lay legal representative’ he set about contacting the various authorities including Shropshire police to try to get the crimes investigated. However still no action was taken, despite Hollie by this time having been awarded a total of £13,500 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
For this reason, in January 2010, Robert felt he had no option but to bring matters to a head by publicly naming the members of the paedophile ring. Of course several went to the police to complain, while the named Sheriff took out an injunction against him. Hence on Friday 12th February 2010, as he was on his way to central Aberdeen to hand out leaflets as a prospective General Election candidate, Robert was arrested and detained for 4 days. He was denied access to legal representation and his home in Warrington was simultaneously raided and his computer and personal documentation removed. He was released on bail pending trial on charges of breach of the peace.
2 years later (the charges were renewed in January 2011) and after more than 15 journeys back and forth to Scotland to attend ‘interim diets’, in January 2012 the case at last came to trial in a 6-day summary hearing at Stonehaven Sheriff Court under Sheriff Principal Bowen. The Sheriff convicted Robert on 1 charge of breach of the peace and 1 charge of breach of bail conditions and on 17th February sentenced him to 1 year in prison.
It is widely thought that Robert did not get a fair trial/this was a mistrial:
- In view of the underlying criminal and human rights dimensions to the case it should have been heard in a ‘solemn’ rather than a ‘summary’ trial, where the evidence would have been more fully examined in front of a jury;
- Robert’s Defence team did not have enough time to prepare the defence, the latest team having only been appointed within a week of the hearing;
- Documentary evidence crucial to the preparation of the Defence, removed from Robert’s house by Grampian police on 13 Feb 2010 had not been returned;
- The original arrest on 12 February 2010 was unlawfully conducted;
- Key witnesses perjured themselves;
- The Sheriff did not allow the cited key witness for the Defence, former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini to be called and failed to reveal his personal connections to the lady;
- The action against Robert leading to the Trial was in breach of Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 2000, where a government or authority may limit an individual’s right to Free Expression, which carries with it “duties and responsibilities”, where such limitation “pursues a legitimate aim, such the prevention of disorder and crime [and] the protection of health and morals…”. It was confirmed at the Trial by all the witnesses who included several of the alleged abusers and victims that Grampian police had not questioned any single one of them regarding Hollie’s allegations, either in 2000 when she filed the original reports, nor in September 2009 when she gave a 3 ½ hour interview to Shropshire police (under Grampian conditions) in which she cogently repeated the information she had given in 2000 and was declared a truthful witness.
Furthermore, it came out in the trial that Grampian police had failed to investigate the death in suspicious circumstances of the other key witness to the abuse, Hollie’s uncle Roy Greig who had discovered her father raping her in 1997 and shortly after had perished in a car-fire.
Therefore, since Grampian police had failed in their duty to prevent disorder and crime or to protect health and morals, they did not have legitimate grounds for silencing Robert and the whole case should have been struck out.
With 2 local authorities in England, Cheshire and Shropshire involved as well those in Scotland the case has long since transcended constituency boundaries and at this stage it is felt that only a public inquiry can adequately address the deep concerns over the way this case has been handled over 12 years, in particular the role of the previous Lord Advocate, Dame Elish Angiolini who lied about her involvement as Procurator Fiscal for Aberdeen during the years 2000-5 and is believed to have used public funds to gag the press.
Besides, the fact remains that in all this time, nothing has been done to protect the vulnerable children who could still be at risk in Scotland and indeed in Portugal, since Hollie’s father Denis Mackie and her brother Greg against whom evidence is strongest are still at large in that country. It is also totally unacceptable that a disabled woman who has been the victim of the most terrible crimes should be further persecuted by public officials and that the honourable man who did most to get these crimes properly investigated has been locked up.
Please would you therefore join with others in the House in demanding a public inquiry into this whole matter. As your constituent I wish to be reassured that you take the protection of children and the disabled and the proper investigation of crime as seriously as do I and I look forward to hearing from you as to what action you will be taking.
Anne and Hollie’s MP is Owen Paterson (Shropshire North) and Robert’s is David Mowat (Warrington South) and both are fully aware of the case, as is the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, but I believe it would be appropriate to register my and hopefully also your concerns with them in the first instance.
For further information please go to www.holliedemandsjustice.org
Yours sincerely
(signature, then your name and address, so the MP can verify you are his or her real constituent)